El Malpais National Monument Vegetation Mapping Project - Spatial Vegetation Data

We developed a vegetation classification and high-resolution vegetation map for El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, as part of the USGS Vegetation Characterization Program, a cooperative effort by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Park Service Inventory & Monitoring - Vegetation Mapping Program to classify, describe, and map vegetation communities in more than 280 national park units across the United States. The classification and map follow the guidelines and requirements of the national program, and were based on data collected from 476 field plots between 2006 and 2009. Based on the field sampling, we identified 50 plant associations following the guidelines of the National Vegetation...

Tags: ELMA, El Malpais National Monument, NVC, National Vegetation Classification, New Mexico, All tags... Vegetation, biota, plant associations, plant communities, vegetation, Fewer tags